Betty Blue is a 1986 French film. Its original French title is 37° 2 le matin, meaning "37.2°C in the morning". The film was directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix and stars Béatrice Dalle and Jean-Hugues Anglade. It is based on the 1985 novel of the same name by Philippe Djian. The film had 3,632,326 admissions and was the eighth highest grossing film of the year in France.[2]

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Betty and Zorg start a passionate affair in a shack on the beach at Gruissan where he works as a handyman. After a row with him, she finds the manuscript of a novel he once wrote and thinks he is a genius. After a row with his boss, she empties the shack and burns it down. The two decamp to the outskirts of Paris, where her friend Lisa has a small hotel. There they find work in the pizzeria of Lisa's friend Eddy but, after a row, Betty stabs a customer with a fork. Back at the hotel, she laboriously types out Zorg's novel and submits it to various publishers. Though Zorg hides the rejection letters she finds one and, going to the publisher's house, slashes his face. Zorg induces him to drop charges.

Eddy's mother dies and the friends go to the funeral in Marvejols. There, Eddy asks Zorg and Betty if they will live in the dead woman's house and look after her piano shop. Zorg enjoys the quiet provincial life and makes friends with the neighbours but Betty is unhappy. One day Zorg finds a collection of pills she is taking and, during a row, she punches out a window. Happiness seems on the horizon when a home test suggests Betty is pregnant, but a lab test is negative and she sinks into depression.

One day Zorg comes home to find blood all over the place and Betty gone. A neighbour tells him she has gouged out an eye and is in hospital. Rushing there, Zorg finds her under heavy sedation and a doctor tells him she will need prolonged treatment. Going home, he finds an acceptance letter from a publisher. On his next visit to the hospital, he gets agitated to find Betty constrained and is thrown out. Returning in disguise, he whispers his farewells and, to save her further agony, smothers her with a pillow. Going home, he sits down to start his next book.